459 research outputs found
Review: Teaching in the Anthropocene: Education in the Face of Environmental Crisis edited by Alysha Farrell, Candy Skyhar, and Michelle Lam
No full textAlysha Farrell, Candy Skyhar, and Michelle Lam (Editors) (2022)Toronto: Canadian Scholars, 338 pages59.95 Canadian (eBook), ISBN 978177338283
Grassroots professional growth: inquiring into the effectiveness of a locally constructed professional development model for rural teachers
No full textRural school divisions in Canada, if they can be spoken of as a collection, consist of extremely diverse groups of people, living in varied geographical settings, with unique community strengths and challenges. The provision of professional development (PD) for rural teachers is one area in which rural school divisions face particular challenges due to the contexts in which they operate. Issues relating to funding, geography, staffing, and local contextual differences impact the ability of rural divisions to provide effective PD for their teachers. The research described in this thesis sought to address the problem of how rural school divisions and teachers might go about creating models of PD that lead to the provision of effective and meaningful PD for teachers, and that mitigate the challenges faced in providing effective PD locally. Through a qualitative, single case study design, the research study inquired into the effectiveness of one locally constructed teacher PD model (the Numeracy Cohort) implemented in a small rural school division in Manitoba in order to address the research problem. The study focused on three questions: (1) To what extent (if at all) is the specific locally constructed PD model utilized in the rural school division able to mitigate the challenges faced by the rural division and its rural teachers in accessing meaningful PD?, (2) To what extent (if at all) is the model effective in terms of supporting teachers’ professional growth in the area of mathematics instruction and student numeracy?, and (3) How do social constructivist principles contribute to teacher professional growth through the locally constructed rural PD model? Findings suggested that the Numeracy Cohort model was able to mitigate several challenges faced by the rural division and its teachers in accessing and providing meaningful teacher PD. Moreover, several effective characteristics of the teacher PD model were identified, including social constructivist principles that contributed to teacher professional growth. While findings are not generalizable, they may be transferable to comparable contexts, thereby providing important considerations for those interested in designing and evaluating teacher PD models for rural teachers.October 201
Viewing learning as complex participation in a community of practice characterized by mathematical inquiry
No full textUsing elements of design experiment research and autoethnography, this action research project investigated how viewing learning as complex participation in a community of practice characterized by mathematical inquiry impacted my teaching practice in a grade 10 Applied Mathematics class in a rural Manitoba high school. This report of the research project describes and analyzes both my attempts to change my teaching practice by drawing on theories of learning mathematics as complex participation in a community of practice and the changes that resulted from these attempts. The analysis focuses on the characteristics of a community of practice characterized by mathematical inquiry, how I attempted to foster such a community, what challenges I faced when I changed my teaching practice in this way, and how insights from this practitioner research project can inform the teaching of mathematics as well as theorizing about the learning of mathematics.February 201
Candy packaging design visual stylistics transformation
No full textDiplomdarba tēma ir ‘’Saldumu iepakojuma dizaina vizuālās stilistikas transformācija’’. Diplomdarba mērķis ir balstoties uz teorētiskajā daļā iegūtajām zināšanām un pētnieciskajā daļā iegūtajiem rezultātiem, veikt saldumu iepakojuma dizaina vizuālās stilistikas transformāciju uzņēmumam ‘’Dabīgs gardums’’. Lai veiksmīgi realizētu darba autora izvirzīto mērķi, tika veikta saldumu iepakojumu dizainu analīze, intervijas un aptauja.
Pētījuma rezultātā tika secināts, ka kvalitatīvas saldumu iepakojuma dizaina izmaiņas pozitīvi ietekmē uzņēmuma kopējo tēlu un produkta konkurētspēju.
Radošajā darbā tikai veikta uzņēmuma ‘’Dabīgs gardums’’ saldumu iepakojuma dizaina vizuālās stilistikas transformācija. Kolekcija sastāv no piecām konfekšu kastēm, viena ievārījuma un vienas sulas.Importance of packaging design has changed a lot i n past hundred years. Packaging has its own life cycle what means that all the time evolution and progress has to happen, so packaging can fulfill functions.
Aim of diploma is to make candy packaging visual stylistics transformation for ‘’Dabīgs gardums’’ based on theoretical knowledg and research results. To reach the goal author did candy packaging design analysis, interviews and survey.
Conclusion of the research is that qualitative candy packaging design transformation positively affect company’s overall image and product competitiveness.
In creative part author made candy packaging design visual stylistics transformation for ‘’Dabīgs gardums’’. Collection contains of five candy boxes, one jam jar and one juice bottle
Shadows and Light: Professional Women Educators Transitioning to Academe
No full textMany professional women educators make the transition from school settings to academe after significant graduate work in their field(s). This transition, which often occurs on a mid- to late-career trajectory, places such individuals within liminal spaces on many levels as they inevitably must navigate unfamiliar, often alien, territory that frequently does not recognize or respect the experiences with which they enter their new university contexts. The collaborative autoethnographic study we embarked upon involved examining our own experiences of making this transition. By revisiting an academic year’s worth of recorded conversations and analyzing them through an ecofeminist lens, we considered the lessons we had learned through engaging in a program renewal process and designing and co-teaching new courses in our first few years as faculty, as well as how these lessons impacted our emerging identities as new teacher educators. Our findings included three broad lessons learned: Beware of Institutionally Invisible Work; This is not High School, Dorothy; and Two Heads and Hearts are One. These lessons taught us to navigate the shadow places (Plumwood, 2008) of academe, including the delegitimization of teaching, nurturing and service work and the dematerialisation (Plumwood, 2008) associated with such delegitimization, and to embrace the light we found rooted in interconnectedness, an ethic of care, and our mutual recognition of the other. Moreover, these lessons offer others in the field ways of understanding the difficult transition to academe undertaken by professional women educators and the complexity of academic/teacher educator identity formation.
Keywords: professional women educators, ecofeminist, institutionally invisible work, teacher educator identity, transition to academe, program renewal, collaborative autoethnography, borderland discourse, mutual recognition, shadow places, ethic of car
Candy elasticity: Halloween experiments on public political statements
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the DOI in this record.We conducted experiments during trick-or-treating on Halloween in a predominantly liberal neighborhood in the weeks preceding the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. We decorated one side of a house porch with McCain material in 2008 (Romney material in 2012) and the other side with Obama material. Children were asked to choose a side, with half receiving the same candy on either side and half receiving more candy to go to the McCain/Romney side. This yields a “candy elasticity” of children's political support. Results vary by age: children ages nine and older were two to three times more likely to choose the Republican candidate when offered double candy for voting Republican compared to when offered equal candy, whereas children ages eight and under were particularly sticky and did not waver in their choice of candidate despite the offer of double candy
Berriasian oceans self-consistent spatial discretization mesh
No full text<p>Berriasian oceans<br>
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<p>An unstructured mesh spatial discretisation of the global oceans of the Early Cretaceous Berriasian age.</p>
<p>This is stored in an unstructured VTU file defined by the visualisation toolkit VTK [2].</p>
<p>A state PVSM file for Paraview [3] is also provided to reproduce visualisations shown in [1]. Note that Paraview requires absolute pathnames, so it may be necessary to edit file references to the VTU file in this state file.</p>
<p>Files<br>
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<p>BerriasianOceans.vtu<br>
BerriasianOceans.pvsm</p>
<p>Author<br>
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<p>Dr Adam S. Candy <[email protected]>, <[email protected]></p>
<p>Technische Universiteit Delft<br>
Imperial College London</p>
<p>References<br>
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<p>[1] Candy, A.S., 2016. A consistent approach to unstructured mesh generation for geophysical models. In review. Preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08491.</p>
<p>[2] The Visualization Toolkit (VTK), version 5.10.1. URL: http://www.vtk.org.</p>
<p>[3] Paraview, version 4.3.1. https://www.paraview.org.</p>
Global oceans self-consistent spatial discretization mesh
No full text<p>Global oceans<br>
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<p>An unstructured mesh spatial discretisation of the global oceans.</p>
<p>This is stored in an unstructured VTU file defined by the visualisation toolkit VTK [2].</p>
<p>A state PVSM file for Paraview [3] is also provided to reproduce visualisations shown in [1]. Note that Paraview requires absolute pathnames, so it may be necessary to edit file references to the VTU file in this state file.</p>
<p>Files<br>
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<p>GlobalOceans.vtu<br>
GlobalOceans.pvsm</p>
<p>Author<br>
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<p>Dr Adam S. Candy <[email protected]>, <[email protected]></p>
<p>Technische Universiteit Delft<br>
Imperial College London</p>
<p>References<br>
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<p>[1] Candy, A.S., 2016. A consistent approach to unstructured mesh generation for geophysical models. In review. Preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08491.</p>
<p>[2] The Visualization Toolkit (VTK), version 5.10.1. URL: http://www.vtk.org.</p>
<p>[3] Paraview, version 4.3.1. https://www.paraview.org.</p>
Pine Island Glacier ice shelf ocean cavity self-consistent spatial discretization mesh
No full text<p>Pine Island Glacier ice shelf ocean cavity<br>
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<p>An unstructured mesh spatial discretisation of the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf ocean cavity.</p>
<p>This is stored in an unstructured VTU file defined by the visualisation toolkit VTK [2].</p>
<p>A state PVSM file for Paraview [3] is also provided to reproduce visualisations shown in [1]. Note that Paraview requires absolute pathnames, so it may be necessary to edit file references to the VTU file in this state file.</p>
<p>Files<br>
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<p>- PineIslandGlacierIceShelfOceanCavity.vtu<br>
- PineIslandGlacierIceShelfOceanCavity_grid_quality_analysis.pvsm</p>
<p>Author<br>
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<p>- Dr Adam S. Candy <[email protected]>, <[email protected]><br>
- Technische Universiteit Delft<br>
- Imperial College London</p>
<p>References<br>
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<p>[1] Candy, A.S., 2016. A consistent approach to unstructured mesh generation for geophysical models. In review. Preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08491.</p>
<p>[2] The Visualization Toolkit (VTK), version 5.10.1. URL: http://www.vtk.org.</p>
<p>[3] Paraview, version 4.3.1. https://www.paraview.org.</p>
Filchner-Ronne ice shelf ocean cavity self-consistent spatial discretization mesh
No full text<p>Filchner-Ronne ice shelf ocean cavity<br>
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<p>An unstructured mesh spatial discretisation of the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf ocean cavity and the ice sheet floating above.</p>
<p>This is stored in two unstructured VTU files defined by the visualisation toolkit VTK [2].</p>
<p>A state PVSM file for Paraview [3] is also provided to reproduce visualisations shown in [1]. Note that Paraview requires absolute pathnames, so it may be necessary to edit file references to the VTU files in this state file.</p>
<p>Files<br>
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<p>- FilchnerRonneIceShelfOceanCavity.vtu<br>
- FilchnerRonneIceShelfOceanCavity_ice.vtu<br>
- FilchnerRonneIceShelfOceanCavity.pvsm</p>
<p>Author<br>
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<p>- Dr Adam S. Candy <[email protected]>, <[email protected]><br>
- Technische Universiteit Delft<br>
- Imperial College London</p>
<p>References<br>
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<p>[1] Candy, A.S., 2016. A consistent approach to unstructured mesh generation for geophysical models. In review. Preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08491.</p>
<p>[2] The Visualization Toolkit (VTK), version 5.10.1. URL: http://www.vtk.org.</p>
<p>[3] Paraview, version 4.3.1. https://www.paraview.org.</p>
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